Really good book 100% recommend

I read this book as a kid, and was absolutely mesmerized. I had an overactive imagination, and was forever trying to transport into otherworldly realms. I also was obsessed with Egypt (what kid isn't?), so it was a perfect dovetail.

As an adult, I finally got the actual plot of the book; I was too taken with the fantasy as a child to even note the details. Berkeley in the 60s, Free To Be You and Me, yadda yadda yadda. Quaint and adorable in a retro Sesame Street way. These childhood books are like comfortable jeans; you feel good in them.

Have you ever thought of the Egypt game?
In the Egypt Game April and Melanie envent a game called THE EGYPT GAME.The game takes place at the Casa Rosada or the Pink House.The a little girl gets killed.So the Egypt gand can not finish their journey to Egypt.Do you think the Egypt Gang will finish their game?
In the dark trashy alley is were the egypt game all started.Melanie and April were very intrested in Egypt,so they started a game focesed on Egypt and they made a gang called THE EGYPT GANG.The members of that gang are,Melanie,April,Marshall,Elizabeth,Ken and Toby.
In the Egypt gang their are a lot of uniqe people.April is a confident and courages person.Elizabeth is chinese,doutful and nice.Melanie is an African American,has braids on her hairand i helpful.Marshall is the sister of Melanie.Ken and Toby are in the 6th grade and are best friends.Every one of them were proud to be part of the Egypt Gang.
The conflict of the story is when a little girl from the neighborhood dies.So the mothers of the Egypt Gang Members get worried so the moms get over protected.So their moms took them everyday to school and they did not let them play outside any more.Then their mothers forgot about that and everything went back to normal but it was December so everyone was so busy buying gifts.So the Egypt Gang did not play the game for a really long time.
The Egypt game is a mystery book.It is based on a game called Egypt.The auother of this book is Zilpha Keatley Snyder.This auother really did take time to describe all the characters in thie book.This book takes place in the city.This book had an amazing plot and i give this book 4 stars.This story reminds me of 6th grade because we learned a lot about Egypt.
THE EGYPT GAME!!

I read this for my Book Club, and though I wouldn’t have chosen it for myself, it was fun to remember what it was like to play - outside, no less! - and be completely wrapped up in your imagination.

This book was awesome. I just read this book as a 4th grader and it got me interested in Egypt. I loved it!

Reading all these children's/YA books for my MLIS classes made me want to reread a few books I loved as a child but do not remember in great detail. The Egypt Game is one of them. While certainly dated, I still enjoyed this book for its nostalgia factor and because April really does remind me of myself at that age. My mom read this to me and if I ever have kids I think I will read it to them. It could be a good conversation starter about cultural appreciation versus cultural appropriation on a very rudimentary and age appropriate level, and it's just plain fun.

Picked up this book again just recently because I remembered LOVING it as a kid. About a group of kids with awesome imaginations who have play an elaborate and lengthy game of ancient Egypt. Their play time is disrupted when a child in the neighborhood vanishes. As a 10-year-old, I would gave given it five stars. It captured me and I could relate to desire to play and pretend with like-minded peers (Kelly's Green, anyone?). As a grown up, I gave it three stars. It's almost fifty years old and some of the historical pieces don't translate well to modern times. I do still have a special place for it in my heart, though.

February 1967 Birthday Read (read early)

This book took me back to when I was eight or ten and played games in the woods (Land of the Lost was a popular one), where creativity and imagination took precedence over technology (because there wasn't any). But as with many books of that generation, there was always the "bad guy" in the neighborhood. Someone was killing children! And the creepy old man who you thought was the killer, turned out to be the hero. Oh, and the young girl lived with her grandmother, as her mother was a singer who recently remarried and was on the road and her father had died. So she basically was an orphan.

I have mixed feelings about this book. I feel like there were a lot of tropes in it, but of course, being a ten-year-old reader, no one would catch it. And I was really bummed I read the 1986 edition with the horrible cover as opposed to the 1967 hardcover I remember as a child. And I like how on the cover they say that Zilpha Keatley Snyder is a THREE-TIME Newbury Honor winner, like young readers care! But this older reader did, and reading this book realized why she is so popular with a younger audience.

An enjoyable story, though I wish I read this at least 20 years earlier. It'd have given my imagination a great boost if I'd read it in my childhood. However, this reminded me of the "pretend games" I myself used to play - apart from the house game where I'd be the mother or the daughter or the sister - especially the one that involved a whole universe of uber-tiny people who lived inside walls and wood (which I imagined to be hollow inside for these people to populate), and one of them, Libu, was my friend.

I especially liked the ending, even if certain parts of the book were hardly extraordinary.

i read this book so often that i killed the binding of it when i was about nine years old.

i read everything else i could find by her at the time and it was all wonderful, dark and magical, exactly what myself at nine wanted to happen in real life.

A Newbery Honor book in 1968 when the winner was From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler byE.L. Konigsburg, this book seems dated and probably not all that appealing to today's young readers who are accustomed to other forms of entertainment than playing in a vacant lot, especially with children in the neighborhood having disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Still, a good read for those interested in quality children's literature for 4th-6th graders.

I can’t remember who recommended this delightful book to me, but I owe whoever it was! What a treat to read this one. Full of adventure, imagination, a little danger, and mystery, this was the perfect fall read for me.